Our new patio went in yesterday and the kids decided to break it in with a game of checkers. Of course, despite 2 cabinets full of games, we didn’t have a checkerboard! I decided to wing it and made one out of an old board game and some painter’s tape. Poker chips stood in for the checkers, LOL. My son and I got most of the way into a game when our cat caught a baby bird and went running through the yard with it. Play stopped while we grabbed a video camera and watched. Eventually, J. grabbed our cat and took him inside, letting the baby bird escape.

Checkers then got postponed until today.
Checkers then led to lots of other games…